Los Angeles Vally College

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• Date of Last Meeting: April 19, 2012
• The Senate played the PASS equity game.     
• The Senate created a committee to plan Opening Day.          
• The Senate discused the budget and the need to have a clear advocacy in this budget crisis.

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Last meeting date: November 10, 2011

• At this time there are some projects that are subject to the Chancellor’s 30-day moratorium. Valley: 1) Parking Lots Internal Roads, 2) Campus In 3) Buisness Journalism.
• Parking Lot "A"We are still working with the bonding company. We’ve moved forward with emergency contract to connect bioswale to County storm water line.

• Comm/Workforce Dev Center: We received the BAFO for this project. Going to Board on 12/07/11.

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• Date of Last Meeting: May 6, 2011
• Committee members discussed adding a new question to the VTEA mini grant application for extra points only if suggestions were related to recommendation from the Advisory Board meeting.
• Alan Cowen informed committee members about a new class that he is developing. The class would be in the Emergency Services Department, working title is “First Responder Qualities & Qualifications.” Basis would be on learning to interview, being computer literate, customer service etc.

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Meeting Date: April 26, 2012

• SSC approved motion/recommendation to establish baseline budget for tutoring. Motion will be forwarded to IEC.
• Conference Committee formed with members from SSC and CARTS to review student support services on second floor of library. Supervision, development, and the amount of tutoring required to support our students and generate FTES will be discussed.

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• Date of Last Meeting:  November 23, 2011.

• The committee recommended approval of 3 study away programs from Summer 2013: Montpellier (French Program), Alicante (Spanish Program) and London (Humanities Program that is hybrid in nature).

• The committee recommended that beginning in Spring 2012, no new curricular proposals may come for consideration if the Annual Plan module on curriculum has not been submitted with the exception of regularly scheduled outline updates.

• So far this year, the committee has reviewed and approved 50 outline updates, 118 course archives, 11 DE/hybrid requests, 13 revised course SLOs, 4 new programs, 4 new courses, 1 cross-listing request, 1 program change, 4 course changes, and 1 TAP/Honors request.

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• Date of Last Meeting: April 16, 2012

• A Motion was made to approve a .2 DE Trainer position. The motion did not pass committee.

• The VP recommends that courses be scheduled conservatively to meet but not exceed FTES goals.

• The EMP survey is completed and will begin to be administered in early May.

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• Date of Last Meeting: February 7, 2012
• Foundational Skills is continuing work on the Foundational Skills Pathway Assessment Project. The Workgroup is anlayzing survey data, program SLOs, and will begin to analyze work samples from courses.
• The second semester of the Pathways Academy for Completion and Transfer (PACT) for accelerated math is underway. This is a ten unit math 11/5/125 course paired with a PD 1 course.

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• Date of Last Meeting:  April 18, 2012
• Grants Committee will create description and link to existing Admin Services and the new Budget Office websites. The Grants website will have forms that are not on either site.
• Handbook motion will be for May 14^th EPC meeting.
• Discussed future campus wide grant.

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Last Meeting: March 7, 2012

• Hiring Handbook for Classified and Administrative Positions updated and approved unanimously. Forwarded to IEC for discussion and approval.
• Hiring Handbook for Faculty Positions updated and approved unanimously. Forwarded to IEC for discussion and approval.
• Discussion concerning ISAs, specifically if position is a faculty position.

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• Date of Last Meeting: April 17, 2012
• IEC conducted a Planning meeting to evaluate and update sections of the College Plan and discuss how the budget shold be applied in next years operations.

• EMP (Education Master Plan) goals need to be prioritized assessed and evaluated. We need to be more efficient at what we do. prioritize and systemize

• Senate – From the student perspective: more classes, increase counseling, expanded tutoring, less costly books. From Senate’s perspective: maintain the classes that we have, focus on transferable classes

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Last Meeting:  May 3, 2012

• The program review narratives for Coop Ed and Emergency Services were approved (pending corrections). Program discontinuance for the AA and certificates in Electronics: Consumer Computer Servicing and Eletronics: Industrial Electronics were approved.
• Motions from the SLO Committee were approved: Change in name of committee (to Outcomes Assessment Committee), change in committee membership, and the CTE Program Assessment Report. The SLO Committee is preparing for the ACCJC proficiency report.
• Rebecca Stein was elected for a 1-year term as committee chair. The committee discussed its goals for 2012-2013.

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• Date of Last Meeting: September 15, 2011
• To conform to State Chancellor’s Office requirements, we distributed a professional development plan on Opening Day and by email. The Professional Development Office is collecting the forms, which are due by September 30.
• Deborah will inform the Academic Senate about the Flexible Calendar Plan submitted in June 2011 to the State Chancellor's Office.
• In addition to regularly-scheduled workshops this semester, we intend to offer "just-in-time" training to meet individual needs and fit people's varied schedules.

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• Date of Last Meeting: May 3, 2012

• The program review narratives for Coop Ed and Emergency Services were approved (pending corrections). Program discontinuance for the AA and certificates in Electronics: Consumer Computer Servicing and Eletronics: Industrial Electronics were approved.

• Motions from the SLO Committee were approved: Change in name of committee (to Outcomes Assessment Committee), change in committee membership, and the CTE Program Assessment Report. The SLO Committee is preparing for the ACCJC proficiency report.

• Rebecca Stein was elected for a 1-year term as committee chair. The committee discussed its goals for 2012-2013.

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• Date of Last Meeting: Sept. 1, 2011
• Set three dates for Fall STARS events -- 9/26, 10/27, 11/29 in the Fireside Room; tentative topics are preventing cheating/plagiarism, teaching reasoning skills (theme-year SLO), and effective classroom communication; possible guest speakers
• Set a goal to create a student mentoring program for new students or those in developmental courses
• Incorporate Achieving the Dream objectives to help engage students, faculty, and staff in identifying obstacles to success

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• Date of Last Meeting: February 27, 2012
• Course outcome assessment submissions - Poli Sci 7, Eng 21, Eng 105, Humanities 3; Service outcomes approved - ACE, Counseling, Student Discipline, Bookstore, Business Office, Budget Office, Sheriff, Community Services, Food Services, IT/Media Srvcs
• Program Assessment - CTE program report is being completed; Foundational Skills program data analysis is almost complete and report writing has begun; GE/Transfer assessment workgroup has started to meet to plan data collection.
• The committee discussed the Spring 2013 SLO proficiency report (ACCJC), the Team 2 accreditation report, and plans for the meta-assessment/IAP revision.

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• Date of Last Meeting: May 9, 2012
• Review of most recent Student Success Taskforce updates and new "link" page from SSC main page.
• Committee membership for 2012/2013 was reviewed, and Scott Weigand was reelected as committee chair for 2012/2013.

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• The Arbor Day Foundation has awarded Los Angeles Valley College Tree Campus USA status. LAVC is the first California community college to earn this designation.
• Friday, May 4, 2012, is the LAVC Arbor Day Tree Campus day. A celebration by the founders will be conducted in the morning. A campus-wide festival will run from 12:30-3:30pm and will include a tree scavenger hunt, recycled art contest, and live music.

• The Go Green! Sustainability Committee is establishing an ongoing inventory of biodiversity on campus. This work will engage students and faculty across the curriculum in addition to staff from all areas of the campus.

• Anyone interested in participating in the research or activities is invited to join the committee at the next meeting or to request meeting notices from La Vergne Rosow, Sustainability Founding Chair.

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• Date of Last Meeting: October 19, 2011

• Jim Martneny discussed podcasting options available to faculty.

• Aaron Weathersby reported that the On-Demand software is being piloted in the administration building. This will allow certain licensed sofware to be downloaded by faculty/staff. IT hopes that this will be available campus-wide in two months.

• Two workgroups turned in section drafts of the Technology Plan and the committee prepared baseline questions for a Technology survey for the campus.

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• Date of Last Meeting: May 3, 2012

• WEC adopted:

  1. Final Draft of "Temporary Parking Pass Issuance Protocol" (to be submitted to IEC).

  2. Committee Self-Evaluation Form (to be submitted to IEC).
• Next meeting moved to / scheduled for Thursday, May 31, 2012.